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It’s UCLA’s Turn in the Hot Seat: Chancellor to Appear before Congress Thursday AM

May 22, 2024 3:15 pmMay 22, 2024 3:15 pm

The past couple of months have been a rather trying time for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. And it won’t get any better Thursday. Block has been called to testify by the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce...

California Lutheran University President Resigns

May 21, 2024 6:00 pmMay 21, 2024 6:01 pm

The controversial president of California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks has resigned. Then-president Lori Varlotta was on the wrong side of a faculty “no confidence” vote only a few months ago – prior to that she had been seen as...

When the Press Becomes Narc: CNN Outing UCLA Counter-Protestors

May 21, 2024 8:15 amMay 21, 2024 8:15 am

In the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riot, a call from federal law enforcement went out far and wide: help us identify who was there. If you were a neighbor or a friend or an acquaintance of someone you...

Are They on the Case or Not: Gascon’s Office Doesn’t Answer Grossman/Teran Questions

May 15, 2024 3:15 pmMay 15, 2024 3:15 pm

Exactly contrary to what George Gascon’s chief deputy district attorney Joseph Iniguez said Monday, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys Ryan Gould and Jamie Castro have in fact been pulled off the sentencing and the fighting of the expected appeal in...

Gascon Re-Assigns DA Who Helmed Grossman Case

May 14, 2024 3:11 pmMay 15, 2024 3:57 pm

When running for re-election, it typically behooves the candidate to be as normal, as steady, as plausible as possible. This does not apply to the challengers, of course, but it is one of the reasons that in most cities very...

LA Prosecutors Decline to File Charges Against Leakers of City Council Racist Recording

May 13, 2024 7:10 pmMay 13, 2024 7:10 pm

Los Angeles County prosecutors just refused to file charges against the two L.A. County Federation of Labor workers who recorded and released audio where several L.A. City Councilmembers could be heard making racist remarks, sending it instead to the LA...

The Greenberg Brief: Holding Out Hope for Prop. 47’s Survival

May 13, 2024 2:45 amMay 14, 2024 6:21 am

It’s now 10 years since the passage of the Safe Neighborhoods & Schools Act. How could voters not have been in favor of it back then? Well, we can now blame the deceptive ballot measure name in hindsight, as it...